Speaking to Benzinga, Talented Blonde President and Retail Analyst Kristin Bentz offered a couple examples of retail industry veterans who might be good to replace departing Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) CEO Michael Jeffries.
The first name she mentioned was former Guess?, Inc. (NYSE...

U.S. stocks rose to close the day with moderate gains despite a larger than expected increase in jobless claims.
“The end of 2015 Q1 is still my preferred liftoff date,” St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard told The Wall Street Journal. The end of the first quarter is ahead of the...

U.S. stocks sold off hard with momentum stocks seeing larger losses with names like Twitter, Facebook, FireEye and others under-performed major indices significantly.
The Fed's richmond President Jeffrey Lacker commented that U.S. inflation has bottomed and is moving towards its target...

While the holiday season is in full swing now, the earnings season is winding down. Perhaps the most prominent quarterly reports on this week's schedule those from Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain, and Tiffany, the iconic purveyor of luxury goods. The consensus forecasts of...

Last week, big-box retailers Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) said their earnings and sales rose in the most recent quarter, and they both boosted their full-year earnings per share (EPS) guidance. More earnings reports are due from retailers this week, highlighted by second-quarter...

Here is a quick look some dividend payers in the consumer goods sector that have a consensus recommendation of analysts of Strong Buy.
The world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), has seen its share price rise almost 31% in the past half year, despite pulling back a bit in the...

Guess? (NYSE: GES) is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter results tomorrow, March 14, after the closing bell.
Investors have seen the company's net income fall year over year by an average of 2.3% over the past five quarters. But revenue has now risen for three straight quarters. Investors...

Things will quiet on the earnings front this week. Perhaps the two most prominent quarterly reports will come from retailers and S&P 500 components Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST). Analysts on average expect both companies to post year-over-year revenue growth of...

The holiday shopping season is officially off and running. Though things will be pretty quiet on the earnings front this week, a handful of retailers are scheduled to share the results of their most recent quarters. These include Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO), American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), Big...